Visio 2013 Absolute Beginner's Guide

Make the most of Visio 2013–without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to master Visio and use it to build powerful, useful diagrams, org charts, and flowcharts of all kinds! Even if you’ve never used Visio before, you’ll learn how to do what you want, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. Visio has never, ever been this simple!

Who knew how simple Visio 2013 could be?

This is the easiest, most practical beginner’s guide to using Microsoft Visio 2013...simple, reliable instructions for doing everything you really want to do! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:

• Master new tools for creating intuitive, visually appealing diagrams
• Learn high-efficiency touch features for Windows 8 and tablets
• Create business and engineering diagrams, flowcharts, maps, floor plans, network diagrams, schedules, and more
• Instantly set or change diagram designs with enhanced templates and themes
• Simplify diagramming with built-in shapes and stencils–or create your own
• Craft more sophisticated diagrams with containers, callouts, screentips, and layers
• Import external images, from SVG graphics to AutoCAD drawings
• Visually present Excel spreadsheet data in Visio drawings
• Dynamically update diagrams with real-time data to support better decision-making
• Share diagrams to improve team collaboration

Alan Wright has worked professionally in and around IT for nearly 10 years. He

has provided enterprise-level support in the Detroit, Michigan, area and continues

to provide software and hardware support for small business and residential users.

He holds several certifications from CompTIA and Microsoft and enjoys working

with technology and teaching others how they can make technology work for

them.

Alan has been the technical editor on other books from Que Publishing, including

Using Windows 8 and Microsoft Project 2013 In Depth. When not working

with computers, he enjoys working on projects in his cabinet shop. Alan lives

in northern Michigan with his wife, Pam, and their two children, Joshua and

Jonathan.

Chris Roth has always enjoyed creating pictures of any kind and absolutely enjoys

the combination of computer technology with graphics. He has been working

with Visio since The Beginning in 1992, when he was part of the Visio 1.0 team at

then-extant Visio Corporation. Since then, he’s continuously been busy helping

customers incorporate diagrams, drawings, and visualizations into their daily business

and to develop custom graphical solutions based on Visio.

A Microsoft Visio MVP since 2002, he has presented sessions at several Visio conferences

and has written more than 250 articles about Visio for his “Visio Guy”

website (www.visguy.com), which he launched in 2006.

Originally from Seattle, he currently lives with his wife and baby daughter in

Munich, Germany. Away from family, laptop, and relaxing Bavarian beer gardens,

he plays trombone with the TT Orchestra and the wind ensemble Pullacher

Blasmusik.